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PATENT CHARLES II. PALMER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NOR T() GEORGE EDWARDS, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS-SNAFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,299, dated November 29, 1864 antedutod November 1e, 1864.

10 all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PALMER, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Harness-Snaps; land I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being' herein had to the drawings aeeon'ipanying this speeicution, and which make part of the same.

rlhe nature ot' my improvement consists in a peculiar forni ofthe tongue ofthe snap and in the manner of combining the spring' therewith.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows :t snap coinplete; Fig. 2, the tongue, and Fig. 3 the sprin 0.

Instead of a inortise in the main stein e and a tenon on the tongue 7), in which manner tongues are commonly afiixed to the stems in harness-snaps, the tongue b is made to clasp the outside of the stein, thereby keeping the tongue more securely in its right position and obtaining two points of bearing, a and d, for

the spring upon the tongue. The spring is at'iixed to the outside of the snap at e and bears upon the tongue below the Y In on which the tongueinoves. Theleverage thus obtained and applied reduces the motion of the spring7 making it mueh less than when a spring is fastened to the inside of the tongue in the ordinary way and therefore the spring will last much longer, and at the saine time it et'feetnelly holds the tongue closed. The spring is made to project down between the cheekpieees ofthe tongue, as shown atf, Eig. 3, while the bearing` is by the two points g und Il, ofthe spring ou the tongue.

I/Vhat I claim and desire to secure is- The tongue constructed as described, and the combination of the spring therewith, in the men-ner land for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES II. PALMER.

Witnesses Monnrs B. LiNDsLEY, Unas. C. SKLNNER. 

